Screening for poverty. 2, 3 Providing health care to uninsured migrants. 4 Advocating for a
national pharmacare program. 5 These are but 3 examples of how family physicians are …

Background: Many medical students come into medicine with altruistic motives; few carry
this altruism into their practice. As a result rural, remote and international areas are …

Background: Collaborative practice is a necessary component of providing effective, socially
responsive, patient-centred care; however, effective teamwork requires training. Canadian …

On the 10th anniversary of Health Canada and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of
Canada's publication in 2001 of Social Accountability: A Vision for Canadian Medical Schools, …

As family physicians, we hold a unique position within the health care system. We have the
opportunity to build trusting lifelong relationships with our patients and are frequently their …

This is the final of 4 articles on social accountability in family medicine and the role of family
doctors in advocating for health equity. Previously, we described the scope of social …

Objective To quantify the degree of non-attendance of medical appointments, as well as to
identify the social reasons behind the missed appointments, at an inner-city primary care clinic…

This is the third article in a series about the social accountability of family medicine.
Previous commentaries have described the scope of social accountability2 and the clinical (micro) …

Saskatoon has nearly half of the diagnoses of HIV in Saskatchewan, Canada, with an incidence
rate among Indigenous populations within inner-city contexts that is 3 times higher than …

In 1995, the World Health Organization1 formally defined social accountability in the context
of medical education as the obligation of medical schools to meet the priority health needs …